What Are You Baking For The Holiday Season?

For the fourth year in a row, we are talking COOKIES! Like lots and lots of cookies and holiday things. Delicious holiday things.

If you’ve been reading along, you know I love to bake a ton around the holidays. Even though I’m really much more of a cook than a baker, it stems from baking with Mother Lovett every Christmas for years and years and years. Once I was busier with school and activities, she’d usually make the dough but we’d still bake the cookies together. Doing this is therapeutic, mind numbing and nostalgic for me. I.love.it. We also love to take big cookie platters of treats (Eddie makes the BEST ones) to friends’/family’s homes over the holidays.

I’ve shared my list the past few years of things I hope to bake, but since my recipes are growing and growing, the list is getting seriously out of control. Believe it or not, this is my narrowed down list. I’m embarrassing. Last year due to some last minute travel, I missed out on a ton of my planned baking. I still managed to make a cookie or three, but nothing like I’d hoped. We’ll see how this year pans out.

MY OTHER RECIPES

Also, one of the biggest questions I get every year is about freezing cookies. I am not an expert in that because I do what Mother Lovett did and my own mom still does… keep them outside in the garage. Yes. I promise it’s not as white trash as it sounds. The weather here is usually freezing, the cookies are sealed as if they are made of fragile blown glass (think layers and layers of plastic wrap and foil in sealed containers) and we set them on shelves in our ice cold garages. It works. So in that sense, yes I think that most of these cookies will freeze well.

Some of the things I’m making aren’t necessarily “baking” but so far I’ve made candied almonds, sugared cranberries and pumpkin rolls to give away. Pumpkin rolls are my ultimate Christmas thing! Also going to make ‘reindeer chow’ with red/green m&ms for the kids, and then going to make homemade peppermint patties! And then we’ll do the classic chocolate chip cookies and maybe some peanut blossoms :) Love your list … Merry Christmas!!